GOLD DREDGE WORKERS
INCREASE IN WAGES By Telegraph—Press Association. GREYMOUTH, June 20. A general wage increase of Is 8d a day is granted in the Westland and Nelson districts gold dredges alluvial gold mining employees' award, which has been issued by the Arbitration Court. The award, which operates for two years from today, provides for a 48-hour week of six shifts. Wages vary from 21s 8d a day for engineers, fitters, carpenters, blacksmiths. welders, and enginedrivers, to 18s 8d for greasers, firemen, strikers, and linesmen and labourers over 19 years of age. The wages of boys are
to be adjusted by the union secretary and the employer. Double pay is granted for Good Friday and Christmas Day. and time and a half for New Year's Day, Easter Monday, King's Birthday, Labour Day, Boxing Day, and the day of the union's annual meeting. There is to be a paid holiday of one day for each 16 worked, not exceeding 18 in the year, allowances being made up to 60 days in the year for sickness, and up to 80 for injury in the calculations.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1938, Page 3
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183GOLD DREDGE WORKERS Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 June 1938, Page 3
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